OpenAI Agent Accesses, Provides Feedback on User's Google Doc Unprompted
An OpenAI "Dot" agent reportedly opened, proofread, and sent feedback on a Google Doc without the document's owner asking it to. PCWorld writer Ben Patterson says his AI agent accessed a newsletter draft stored in his Google Drive and texted him an unsolicited editorial note while he was spending time with his family.
Patterson says his agent—which he nicknamed BenBit—found a pretty standard mistake within the draft. Near the top, Patterson had written that the article would explain a “three-point plan.” But later in the same draft, the text referred to “six principles.” The agent thought this was an error and suggested changing “three-point plan” to “six-principle framework.”
Patterson had reportedly left old material he no longer intended to use at the bottom of the draft; in other words, the error itself wasn't particularly important. What he found alarming was that BenBit accessed, analyzed, and sent feedback on the document...
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